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We are officially pleased to announce the release of our Black Label collection for fall. This chilling change of season has left us all nostalgic, so we’ve taken things back to basics with a couple of old faces and a simpler format. No Smooch!, no Whipped! just that classic, silken Villainess soap.
Mudslide - A positively filthy mix of day-old coffee grounds and vetyver, blackened hazelnut, sweet graham, and rich cream. - One of our debut soaps, Mudslide was discontinued due to scent-boredom. This revamped formulation features terracotta boulders for texture and a lighter sprinkling of exfoliating coffee grounds.
Strychnine - Ripe peaches and green apples spiked with a menacing hint of cinnamon and ginger, sweetened with tobacco and underscored with burning oak and earth. - Another one of our debut soaps, Strychnine’s blend of spicy apples and peaches was not super-innovative. We’ve added plenty of ginger, tobacco, burning leaves and earth making it completely appropriate for fall and altogether original. If you loved it the first time, you’ll fall in love all over again.
Moral Decay - Honey sweet, smoky lapsang souchong tea, brewed too strong and liberally debauched with aniseed, ginger, cinnamon, bergamot and gentian. - Originally appeared as a disaster-soap - a complete failure of a batch that smelled beautifully. We’ve brought it back, this time as a successful batch, and added a dollop of honey for sweetness.
Shrapnel - Sugared cranberries laced with ozone and incense and spiked with cracked peppercorns. - This season’s experiment tiptoes on a tightrope between fruity and metallic, and has an underlying sweetness that puts us in mind of a Pink Pyromania.
Our collection draws on old fall favourites - earth, burning leaves, cinnamon, cranberry and warm teas - and tosses them in the deep-end with a wealth of jarring notes. No less than you’d expect from Villainess.
Speaking of the unexpected, I won’t be a bit surprised if each and every one of you reports a week’s worth of tedious, little snafus. Communication gaffs, absentee cell-phones, failed reservations, vehicular inconvenience… Shall I go on? You see, last week, on the 25th of September, the planet Mercury suffered an apparent reversal in its orbit. These reversals, retrogrades, happen occasionally to all the planets (from our limited, geocentric POV). Astrologically speaking, a retrograde generally corresponds to a similar reversal of that planet’s area of expertise. Trying to make forward motion under these circumstances can be trying. We’ve anticipated your needs (because you know, we’re awesome that way). Retrograde is our fragrance for reversals - all reversals. This is only our second perfume oil release, and the first to be made available in anything like salable quantities. Let me elaborate:
Seamless layers of incense and earth - amber, oppopanax, sandalwood, egyptian musk, old oakmoss - sweetened with tonka and black vanilla. Clarifying Bulgarian lavender, a black haze of orchid, osmanthus and narcissus and a jolt of raw black pepper and clary sage.
Retrograde is designed to celebrate the general notion of reversal, planetary or otherwise. Go with the flow, because afterall, every undertaking can benefit from a moment of reflection. If you can’t make forward progress, there’s nothing wrong with backtracking a bit.
In other (fabulous) news, local customers? Now you can browse the Villainess line in person! No, we haven’t opened our doors boutique style - we’ve done one better… Three Chicks Designz offers a really stunning selection of designer decor and high-end gifts. They’re my personal supplier for Tyler and Voluspa candles, among many others. Villainess plus? We can’t top that. We are beyond excited to work with an incredible local retailer and truly pleased to send you their direction! When you’re in Waverly, check out Three Chicks at 100 East Acres Avenue.
Stay tuned! We’ll be back in November with a truly gift-able selection of winter goodies. What are we planning? Your seasonal favourites, a few hot cuppas, and a handful of dalliances in perfumery!
Vil·lain·ess \ 'vi-lən-nəs \ n : a woman who is a villainVil·lain·ess \ 'vi-lən-nəs \ n
1 : an uncanny, articulate woman
2 : a deliberate antagonist or tease
3 : an intelligent woman in a tabloid or gossip
4 : the fall-girl in a particularly difficult situationVillainess. Redefining "bad."
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CANNOT WAIT until November - especially the perfumey goodness!
Posted by HellsBelle | October 7, 2008 8:26 PM